Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

SStudio portrait of 4192 Private (Pte) Arthur Charles Farthing, and 4151 Pte John Clow, (positions unknown). Pte Farthing, a billiard marker from Port Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 6th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915 along with Pte Clow. Later serving with the 1st Pioneer Battalion with the service number 4151B he returned to Australia on 2 January 1919. Pte Clow, originally from Glasgow, Scotland was an upholsterer from Hicksborough, Victoria prior to enlistment and also later served with the 1st Pioneer Battalion. He returned to Australia on 12 May 1919. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative